Chris Poelker’s Blog

Wow, time sure does fly. It has been a while since my last blog here! I have not just been goofing off though, believe me (maybe we can discuss this over a cold one?!) If you have not seen it yet, I have been doing some blogging over at Computerworld, and also hanging out with my buddies over at storage monkeys. My Computer world blogs have been about Cloud computing and virtualization, and I came across an interesting reply on the subject, with a link to a another good blog by Ed Koehler.

I have also been doing some research lately on technical innovations, and would love some feedback here as to which you think will be the hottest in 2010.

My current list for top 2010 technologies include:

• Data Deduplication: Still a hot item, and should be adopted by many more companies in the months to come. The return is just too high to ignore
• Cloud Computing: Do you think many companies will be outsourcing to external providers for backup, DR, Disk , and software, or is this just another fad?
• Data Center Service Consolidation: This could also be called “Integrated Data Center”, with solutions coming from multiple vendors, including an interesting joint venture between EMC, Cisco and VMware called Acadia. I would like to know your opinion if you feel companies are going to rip and replace everything and go for a datacenter in a rack solution outsourced to EMC and Cisco, running their gear either in-house or remote.
• Storage Virtualization: Server virtualization is here big time, and I think storage virtualization is the next big step for widespread adoption in 2010. Comments?
• SRM Software: With all the virtualizaiton and consolidated and cloud computing going on, someone is going to have to manage everything.
• Global File Systems: Moving to a global object model begins to make sense as geographical data placement begins to become irrelevant.
• Continuous Protection and Snapshot backups: Backup is dead. Long live backup

 I will be spending time here in the coming weeks delving deeper into each of these topics, so let me know your thoughts as to which technologies you feel will be the game changer in 2010.

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